Are you a culinary genius but lack the appropriate kitchen appliances to prepare the banquet of which you've always dreamed?
Le Cook Store, located at 911 Third Ave., across from Pullman Square, has all the tools and cookware any amateur gourmet chef could ever want.
Apart from its wide selection of gastronomic gadgets, Le Cook Store also offers cooking demonstrations in its built-in kitchen.
The store is in its fourth month of operation, and Shawn Bresnahan, manager and operating partner of the store, said they have had good business.
"We've done very well," Bresnahan said. "We've actually had a lot of people through the doors."
The store is located next to the Marshall Community and Technical College Culinary & Cooking Institute, and although the two establishments occasionally work together for mutual gain, they are not a single entity.
Bresnahan clarified the relationship between Le Cook Store and the cooking institute.
"Le Cook Store is like the Food Network live," Bresnahan said. "You get to watch, you get to smell, you get to taste and ask questions, but you don't really get a hands-on experience here.
"If you watch us make Crème brulee, and decide you'd like to learn how to make it, you can go next door to the culinary school and actually do all the mixing and measuring and cooking."
The store also carries a limited selection of locally manufactured gourmet mixes and sauces, and hopes to produce its own brand of cooking supplies in the near future.
Bresnahan said the slightly aged building adjacent to Pullman Square is a great location for Le Cook Store, not only because the warm lighting, high ceilings and brick walls make for a kitchen-like environment, but also because the store is a perfect fit in the changing economic climate of downtown Huntington.
"We're in a new downtown resurgence area where people are wanting to learn new things and get unique items as opposed to a mall, where every store is just about the same merchandise," Bresnahan said.
Griffin McElroy can be contacted at mcelroy6@marshall.edu.
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